Jim Moray - new album free through Songlines

On April 30 2010 award-winning folk artist Jim Moray will pre-release his new album exclusively through the June issue of Songlines magazine.

Never a musician to stick to the prescribed routes, Moray’s world-exclusive partnership with Songlines will see him join only a handful of artists to pre-release albums in this way including Prince & McFly (the Mail on Sunday) and The Kinks’ frontman Ray Davies (The Sunday Times). From June 11 In Modern History will also be available to buy once Songlines is off-sale.

Following three albums that have inspired controversy as well as critical acclaim, Moray’s strategy for his fourth album is significant: "There’s a lot to be said for trying new things,” he says. “When you’re a few albums in, it’s very hard for people to form a different impression of you. So I wanted to do something interesting and something that’s exciting in itself… to create an opportunity for people to have the CD in their hand and give it a try. Perhaps having discovered the new album for free they might decide to come to a live show or want to investigate what I’ve done before, and we are also releasing a new compilation of tracks from my back catalogue to make that easy to do.”